Environmental Memory and Planetary Survival

Lawrence Buell

Thursday, November 15th
4-6pm McCune Room
UCSB Humanities and Social Sciences Building

Considered one of the founders of environmental criticism, Professor Lawrence Buell of Harvard University will share his most recent work, which analyzes the intersections of global and environmental studies.

Professor Buell is this year's Jay Hubbell Award winner, awarded by the MLA American Literature Group for lifetime achievement in American literature. His publications include:

• The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing and the Formation of American Culture (1995)
• Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture and Environment in the United States and Beyond (2001; winner of the Cawelti Prize for the best book in the field of American Cultural Studies)
• Emerson (2003; winner of the Warren Brooks Award for outstanding literary criticism)
• The Future of Environmental Criticism (2005)

Presented by:

The American Cultures & Global Contexts Center; The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center; The Division of Humanities and Fine Arts; The Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media; The Bren School of Environmental Science and Management; Environmental Studies; English; Classics; History of Art and Architecture; The Literature & Environment Colloquium.

For more information about this event visit: http://acc.english.ucsb.edu

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